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This account shows the medical beliefs in Morocco surrounding leprosy, particularly in the enslaved Moor population.

This document provides an account of the proceedings surrounding enslaved people that died during the Middle Passage.

A statistical breakdown of the enslave population of the United States between 1790 and 1854. This accounts for gender and age demographics, population by region and state, and the mortality rate by state. This document also shows the enslaved…

Receipt for medical services (visit and medicine) by a local physician, Dr. G. W. Caldwell, to a slave, in 1862. William Patterson paid $10 for the doctor's services. It is unknown whether the slave was owned by Patterson or if he was acting on…

An illustration of a slave market in Marrakesh by British landscape and figure painter, Archibald Stevenson Forrest.

Watercolor reproductions of Forrest's oil paintings appeared in a series of travel books published by A & C Black in the early…

Arguably the most famous firsthand account of slavery from the point-of-view of one who was enslaved.

This image of the slave ship Brookes was one of the first images of slavery to which Western societies were exposed. It shows the inhumane conditions that enslaved people had to endure. Note the lack of space and lack of means to dispose of human…

This is an excerpt from Fifty Years In Chains; it shows how he views Christianity and the Bible.

This is the abridged version of the life of Charles Ball. It is an invaluable first-hand account of slavery. Due to the nature of slavery, first-hand account are rare. The account was transcribed by Issac Fisher.

This is an exert from explains the religious justification,specifically the Christian Justification, used to enslave people.